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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
Fri 19 May 2023 16:15 - 16:30 at Meeting Room 101 - SE education methods and tools Chair(s): Andrew Begel

Programming education should aim to provide students with a broad range of skills that they will later use while developing software. An important aspect in this is their ability to write code that is not only correct but also of high quality. Unfortunately, this is difficult to control in the setting of a massive open online course. In this paper, we carry out an analysis of the code quality of submissions from JetBrains Academy - a platform for studying programming in an industry-like project-based setting with an embedded code quality assessment tool called Hyperstyle. We analyzed more than a million Java submissions and more than 1.3 million Python submissions, studied the most prevalent types of code quality issues and the dynamics of how students fix them. We provide several case studies of different issues, as well as an analysis of why certain issues remain unfixed even after several attempts. Also, we studied abnormally long sequences of submissions, in which students attempted to fix code quality issues after passing the task. Our results point the way towards the improvement of online courses, such as making sure that the task itself does not incentivize students to write code poorly.

Fri 19 May

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15:45 - 17:15
SE education methods and toolsTechnical Track / SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training at Meeting Room 101
Chair(s): Andrew Begel Carnegie Mellon University
15:45
15m
Talk
On the Applicability of Language Models to Block-Based Programs
Technical Track
Elisabeth Griebl University of Passau, Benedikt Fein University of Passau, Florian Obermueller University of Passau, Gordon Fraser University of Passau, René Just University of Washington
16:00
15m
Talk
Improving Grading Outcomes in Software Engineering Projects Through Automated Contributions Summaries
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Kai Presler-Marshall Bowdoin College, Sarah Heckman North Carolina State University, Kathryn Stolee North Carolina State University
16:15
15m
Talk
Analyzing the Quality of Submissions in Online Programming Courses
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Maria Tigina JetBrains Research, Anastasiia Birillo JetBrains Research, Yaroslav Golubev JetBrains Research, Hieke Keuning Utrecht University, Nikolay Vyahhi Stepik, Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research
Pre-print
16:30
15m
Talk
A Metric for Measuring Software Engineering Post-Graduate Outcomes
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Travis Breaux Carnegie Mellon University, Jennifer Moritz Carnegie Mellon University
16:45
7m
Talk
Using Focus to Personalise Learning and Feedback in Software Engineering Education
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Bansri Amish Modi School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Andrew Cain School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Guy Wood-Bradley Deakin University, Jake Renzella University of New South Wales, Sydney
16:52
7m
Talk
Shaping a Tool for Developing Computing Students’ Professional Identity - Industry Perspectives
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Laura Tubino Deakin University, Kerri Morgan Deakin University, Guy Wood-Bradley Deakin University, Andrew Cain School of Information Technology, Deakin University
17:00
7m
Talk
REFERENT: Transformer based Feedback Generation using Assignment Information for Programming Course
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Jinseok Heo Sungkyunkwan University, Hohyeon Jeong Sungkyunkwan University, Dongwook Choi SungKyunKwan University, Eunseok Lee Sungkyunkwan University
17:07
7m
Talk
Factors Affecting Compilable State at Each Keystroke in CS1
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Steven Scott Utah State University, Arto Hellas Aalto University, Juho Leinonen The University of Auckland, John Edwards Utah State University